[MLB-WIRELESS] Linksys WRT54G

[Winder]

Hey Dan,

 This sounds like what is needed to get some important nodes up and running
where power, access, cabling and space are all issues that rule out having a
PC based installation.

 Just two of these things running routing (and whatever other services you
want, like SSH and QoS) stuck in a box with a crossover cable and you have a
routing node that requires no PC. All it would need is power. Sounds really
cool in a geeky sort of way.

 All I need now is a job to allow me to buy one to hack :)

Regards,
g at z.




-----Original Message-----
From: owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au
[mailto:owner-melbwireless at wireless.org.au]On Behalf Of Dan Flett
Sent: Tuesday, 1 June 2004 4:12 PM
To: Melbourne Wireless
Subject: [MLB-WIRELESS] Linksys WRT54G


Hi y'all,

Has anyone here played with the WRT54G?  Seems you can run Linux on it
and do all sorts of stuff - OSPF, QoS routing, SSH, some people have
even compiled and run Kismet on it.  I've heard that it has some issues,
such as the radio perhaps not being so good, and it can be unstable.  A
Swedish company called Sveasoft has written some custom firmware that
gives it all sorts of cool features such as Frottle.  Stephen Tossel
sent me the I, Cringely link today so I went and did a bit of Googling.
I, Cringely seems a little over-enthusiastic about what's possible with
modified WRT54Gs - grassroots metropolitan VoIP networks and the like -
but they seem an interesting enough box to tinker with.  The eBay link
below has them, in Melbourne, for $145.

eBay
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=11185&item=570
2135888&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW

I, Cringely
http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20040527.html

I, Cringely, Slashdotted
http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=04/05/28/1249235&mode=thread&tid=106&
tid=137&tid=185&tid=193&tid=215

Seattle Wireless
http://www.seattlewireless.net/index.cgi/LinksysWrt54g

Sveasoft documentation
http://docs.sveasoft.com/

Sveasoft discussion forums
http://www.sveasoft.com/modules/phpBB2/index.php


Dan

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